Here's a .pdf of the Proulx story. I think you'll be floored by how well the screenplay, and Lee's direction, lines up with her prose.

I still have limited net access, so I'll come back later to ponder the rest of your neat review.

I have to gloat, though, about my perfect Halifax audience. Enormously diverse crowd, mink coats to nose rings, totally swept up by the movie, laughed at the funny parts, gasped and whimpered appropriately. I went with my mom. Woot.